Program includes the following sessions:Linda Barraclough - publishing on blogs and FlickrVicki Court - footnoting, references, bibliographies and indexesLenore Frost - researching, interpreting and using photographs

George Higinbotham succeeded Sir William Stawell in 1886 as Victoria's third Chief Justice. In 1937, forty-five years after his death, the then Chief Justice, Sir Richard Mann, unveiled a life size bronze statue north to the Old Treasury entrance steps. Mann's speech revealed that Higginbotham's high repute was undiminished by time. Recent biographies have suggested that his public repute was at odds with his private behaviour. This paper seeks to counter that charge.

Australia cherishes its excentrics, dissenters, rascals, ratbags, cranks and agitators. However in the legal sphere, the environment is more restrained. Those individuals who persist in self litigating and try the patience of those administering the system are eventually decalred by the court to be 'vexatious litigants'. Somon Smith's book, Maverick Litigants, traces the evolution of this harsh sanction since its introduction in Australia in 1930 and brings to life previously untold stories of six Australian vexatious litigants.

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The Royal Historical Society of Victoria was formed in 1909 and is a community organisation committed to collecting, researching and sharing an understanding of the history of Victoria.

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